ae render confusion
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- mikotondria3
ah hey...
So Im doing some NTSC size comps in ae, nothing complex, coupe of effect layers, and moving from frame to frame its taking about 2 seconds to update the view window, and that's fine.
When, however, I got to pre-render, or even make-movie of my little compositions, the render machine is just craaaaawling !
Its taken 6 minutes so far to just do 19 frames, but I can do a ram preview of those same 19 frames in under a minute..
Anyone got any ideas as to why this might be ?
The render queue window isnt even showing the '10 seconds' elapsed...it just sits there, then jumps to 1 minute, which isnt normal.
Usually, it thinks about it for 10 seconds, then gives you the 'estimated time'..
Any help and advice greatly appreciated, thanks. :)
- locustsloth0
What file format are you making? Lots of lights and shadows and use of camera(s)?
- mikotondria30
ah no, just plain stills and no 3d layers - its very odd..
Literally panning a picture with some brightness change.
Kind of confounds my delivery date.
Into next year.
- Meeklo0
I'm sure you know this..
but just in case you don't, select "Quarter" under resolution preview (just below your comp window) also make sure motion blur is off while previewing, and under the "time Controls" palette, select Skip 5 (this will skip 5 frames, render 1) so your previews are a lot fasterHope that helps!
- Meeklo0
what if you repair permissions and restart? (the computer that is, not the project)
I'm assuming this only happens with this specific project?
- Milky_joe0
It's not the preview it's the final render which is taking it's time.
Try making sure caps lock is on before you render your file out and before you render the file go to preferences and hold down shift I think this wil bring up a 'sectret' choice and form this choose purge cache every 12 frames or so should speed things up a bit :)
- it's apple shift and alt to get the secret menu. in the memory and cache drop downMilky_joe
- victortarre0
check that the sizes of your stills are not more than 72px and that they are the same size as your comp.
another time-issue has to do with your compression, the more you compress your final render the longer it will take.
- mikotondria30
thanks greatly people, I found the secret menu, and actually just removed the effect layer - it was only like a brightness adjustment and a trapcode shine, but now it's behaving more normally.
It must be another confounding interaction of my subconcious knowing that I should use trapcode shine, because that's lazy, and that I need to come up with a real idea.
Thanks again for the infos :)